Recruit affiliates

There are three ways to bring affiliates into your campaign: public application page, direct invite, and the curated Rekomi Network.

1. Public application page (fully shipped)

Every active campaign has a public application page on your free branded subdomain at https://{yourbrand}.rekomi.com/{your-slug} (your root subdomain serves your primary campaign). This is the primary channel for affiliate recruitment today, and it's free on every plan tier. The page shows:

• Your campaign name and description
• Commission type and value (transparent up front)
• Cookie window
• Attribution model
• A short application form

The page is fully customizable in the campaign's landing page editor. Open it with the Edit landing page button next to your signup page URL at the top of the campaign.

The application form itself is configured inside the editor. Out of the box it asks for email (required), full name, website or channel, and how the affiliate plans to promote you, with an Apply submit button whose text you can change. You can also add an optional custom alias field (3-64 letters, digits, or hyphens, with no leading or trailing hyphen) so affiliates pick their own link slug. You can add, remove, relabel, reorder, and mark fields required, choosing from 13 field types grouped as Text (text, long text, email, URL, number, date), Choice (dropdown, checkboxes, radio, a single consent checkbox), and Contact & location (phone with a flag/dial-code picker, country with the full ISO list, and a multi-part address). Submission creates a pending affiliate (or an approved one if you have autoApprove = true on the campaign); every answer is stored on the affiliate and shown on their detail page.

The form can also run as a two-step application. Turn on the toggle in the form editor and drag your questions between the two sections: step 1 asks only for name and email, and submitting it creates the applicant immediately, exactly like a normal application. The confirmation card then asks the step 2 questions inline, and the answers attach to the same application. If someone stops after step 1 you still keep the lead, and their profile notes that step 2 is unfinished. Applicants can skip step 2, so treat those questions as useful context rather than a gate.

Beyond the form, the editor controls the whole page design:

• Layout: pick from Centered (a classic single column), Split (your pitch beside a sticky application form), Hero (a full-width banner in your accent color behind the headline), or Showcase (a full-height brand image beside the page, with your program's key numbers in a benefits card).
• Theme: start from a one-click preset, including dark palettes, then fine-tune the accent, body text, muted text, and page background colors. Choose from 1,900+ Google Fonts, set a background image with a readability overlay, and shape button and field corners.
• Content blocks: stats (live commission, cookie window, and attribution values), how-it-works steps, rich text, FAQ, images, testimonials, a Product showcase (up to 6 products, each with an optional photo, price text, and link; only the name is required), and extra call-to-action buttons. The hero supports an eyebrow line above the headline and an "approved instantly" pill that only appears when the campaign actually auto-approves. Don't confuse this Product showcase block with the Showcase page layout above; the layout is the whole-page structure, the block is one section you can add to any layout.

Every change previews live beside the editor, and nothing goes public until you click Save. The page footer carries a small "Powered by Rekomi" link; brands on Pro and Enterprise can turn it off in the editor's Footer section.

Share the URL anywhere: your homepage, your pricing page footer, Twitter, email lists, Product Hunt comments, your community.

If autoApprove is true, the applicant gets an instant approval email with a "Get your link" magic-link CTA that signs them straight into /a on one click. Otherwise the application lands in your approval queue (see Manage affiliates) and the magic-link is generated after you approve.

2. Direct invite by email

Click Invite affiliates on the affiliates dashboard at /dashboard/affiliates. The modal accepts a single email or a bulk paste of up to 50 addresses, a campaign to invite them to, an optional rich-text personal note (bold, italic, link, paragraph, list), and an optional commission override. Single invites can also carry a tracking slug so a migrating affiliate keeps their existing link. A third tab, From customers, suggests likely referrers from your existing Stripe customers (Growth plan and above). Submission creates an invite per recipient and dispatches a branded email to each: single invites send immediately, and bulk pastes are queued by a background job that sends at a steady rate so nothing trips email rate limits.

Each recipient gets a unique invite link at /invites/affiliate/{token}. Accepting the invite creates the affiliate as approved or pending, controlled by the modal's Auto-approve on accept toggle. The toggle defaults to whatever the selected campaign's auto-approve setting is.

Once the affiliate is approved (whether by auto-accept or by your subsequent approve action), they receive the same "Get your link" magic-link email as a public applicant. One click into /a. Invites expire after 7 days; you can resend or revoke pending invites from the Invites tab on /dashboard/affiliates.

3. Curated network match

You can apply your campaign to the Rekomi Network. The network is a vetted pool of creators who applied once to Rekomi and were approved as quality affiliates across multiple campaigns. Network creators see relevant campaigns in their dashboard and can apply with a pitch.

Apply your campaign to the network at /dashboard/network. You fill in:

• ICP description (who is your ideal customer)
• Target affiliate profile (who is your ideal creator)
• Commission pitch (why creators should care)
• Support link (where creators get help)
• Press link (your latest coverage, useful for creator vetting)
• Notes (anything else)

A Rekomi curator reviews your application and either approves it (your campaign goes into the network surface) or rejects it with a written reason. Status flows: Submitted -> Approved or Rejected; while submitted, the listing shows as Pending approval. The rejection reason is visible inline, and revising and saving the listing resubmits it for a fresh review.

Once approved, creators see your campaign when they browse /a/network. They apply with a pitch; you approve or reject from your normal affiliates queue.

Bonus channel: your affiliates recruit for you

On every plan there is a fourth channel: sub-affiliate recruiting. Enable it per campaign and every approved affiliate gets a personal recruitment link to share. When someone they recruit closes a sale, the recruiter earns an override you set: a percent of the recruit's commission, capped at one recruiting level, never multi-level. Recruits keep their full rate; the override comes out of your margin. It turns your strongest affiliates into a recruitment channel that scales with the program instead of with your outreach time.

Which to use

• Just getting started? Open the public application page. Share it everywhere.
• Have a list of known creators? Send direct invites (single or a bulk paste of up to 50) with a personal note; invited creators skip the cold application step.
• Want scaled quality recruitment? Apply to the curated network. Be ready to pitch creators on why your product is worth promoting.

The three are not mutually exclusive. Most brands run all three in parallel.

Settings that affect recruitment

A few campaign settings change the recruitment experience:

• autoApprove = true: applicants are approved on submit. Use this if you want zero friction and trust your audience.
• autoApprove = false: applicants enter a queue. Use this if you want a quality bar.
• termsUrl: link to your affiliate campaign terms. Shown on the public application page.
• description: your pitch. Keep it punchy. Two or three sentences works.